Osterley Underground station
Historic site · Osterley, England
Osterley station is on the Great West Road, Osterley, Isleworth, TW7 4PX, and is listed Grade II as NHLE 1240806 under the register name "OSTERLEY LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT STATION (INCLUDING PLATFORMS)", so the entry covers the platforms as well as the building. It is a working Piccadilly line station and stands 860 m from Osterley House.
History
The Grade II listing was made on 26 May 1987 as list entry 1240806. The station opened on 25 March 1934, replacing Osterley & Spring Grove of 1883 about 300 m east on Thornbury Road, whose buildings and platforms still stand. Stanley Heaps designed it following a preliminary plan by Charles Holden, in the modern European idiom Holden used along the Piccadilly line: brick, reinforced concrete and large areas of glass. Its brick tower is topped by a concrete obelisk, possibly taken from the De Telegraaf building in Amsterdam that Holden saw on a Netherlands study trip. Frank Pick, Chief Executive of London Transport, thought stations designed by others in Holden's manner lacked attention to detail and dubbed them "Holdenesque".
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Osterley Station, Great West Road, Osterley, Isleworth TW7 4PX